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Pernilla Tilosius and her Bengan met in their teens and lived together for almost 40 years.
Last summer, he died when a chocolate wheel overturned at Kivik’s market. In the days before Christmas, Pernilla learned that the prosecutor is closing the investigation into the accident.
– It’s just like if you go to a market, then you have to be prepared to lose your father or your life partner, says Pernilla.
It is a nightmare day, July 5, 2024.
But Pernilla Tilosius, her husband Bengt, one of the adult sons and Pernilla’s brother and his family don’t know that when they stroll through Kivik’s market that Friday.
– We were just going to the market and had a holiday. And then we lost my life partner and the boys’ father, says Pernilla.
When they were standing by the chocolate wheel, about to buy lottery tickets, a gust of wind came.
– The wagon started rocking like a boat on open water, it is completely loose. And then it just leaned more and more forward.
Pernilla throws herself away. But Bengt doesn’t have time. When Pernilla turns around, she sees her husband, who is pinned under the canopy.
– There is a lot of blood and Bengt is uncontactable.
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full screenPernilla Tilosius’ husband Bengt died in the accident at Kivik’s market. Photo: Krister Hansson
Planned the future together
She can’t get that image off her retina. The trauma affects the whole family, including the two children who are at the market.
Pernilla and her Bengan, as she calls him, had ten years left in working life before retirement. There were plans for the future, they had a farm that they wanted to donate and liked to engage in nature and hunting.
– We had plans for life. And for the sons, to be able to be there for them, to simply help each other.
When Pernilla talks about Bengt, she describes a person who looked after the family.
– He was also very straight and said what he thought. Kind and considerate of other people. A very nice person.
Now Pernilla cannot work and is on sick leave. She describes autumn as a bottomless sadness.
– It is unimaginable that we will never get him back. When everything was so good.
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full screen”It is unimaginable that we will never get him back. When everything was so good,” says Pernilla Tilosius. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
The anger – the chocolate wheel was scrapped
On Thursday, five days before the Christmas she dreaded, the next blow came.
The prosecutor dropped the preliminary investigation into causing another death after the accident. Something the family had to read about in the newspaper because the prosecutor issued a press release before the family had been informed.
According to senior prosecutor Josefin Sävlund, it is clear that the kiosk was not stable enough, and tivolit has made a misjudgment. But it is not serious enough to be classified as punishable.
Pernilla and the family are sad and angry that the investigation has been closed. They think there are major flaws in the preliminary investigation.
Among other things, Tivolit scrapped the chocolate wheel after the barriers were removed after the accident. It was not seized by the police, and therefore no further investigations could be carried out.
– The evidence, which is the wagon in this case, is gone, says Pernilla.
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full screen The public prosecutor has dropped the preliminary investigation into causing another death after the accident. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
Tivoli’s lawyer: Nothing to hide
Axel’s Tivoli’s lawyer Kristoffer Ståhl comments on the criticism.
“When the police had carried out a forensic examination of the chocolate wheel, the company asked the police if they could dismantle it. This as the chocolate wheel would never be used again for obvious reasons. The police announced that it went well when their investigation was completed,” he writes.
“If the police had wanted to carry out further investigations of the chocolate wheel, they would have seized it. My client has acted absolutely right and has absolutely nothing to hide,” he continues.
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full screen “It’s just like if you go to a market, then you have to be prepared to lose your father or your life partner,” says Pernilla Tilosius. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
“Death Trap”
Pernilla has more unanswered questions. Why was the chocolate wheel, which weighs five tons, the only major attraction to topple in the wind?
– I understand these party tents and what easily blows away. But there are other big wagons. Had this been about the wind, more wagons would have overturned. But it was this one that was a death trap.
She had wanted vindication – to give Bengt vindication.
– I think that something like this can affect the prosecutor, it can affect the funfair owner, it can actually affect anyone. And I think they would have wanted the outcome of the investigation to be different in that case.